Welcome to my genealogy blog. Genea-Musings features genealogy research tips and techniques, genealogy news items and commentary, genealogy humor, San Diego genealogy society news, family history research and some family history stories from the keyboard of Randy Seaver (of Chula Vista CA), who thinks that Genealogy Research Is really FUN!
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Sunday, April 13, 2008

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of April 6-12, 2008

Here are my picks for great reads from the genealogy blogs for this past week.

My criteria are pretty simple - I pick posts that advance knowledge about genealogy, address current genealogy issues, provide personal family history, are funny or are poignant. I don't list posts destined for the Carnival of Genealogy, or other meme submissions (but I do include summaries of them), or my own posts.

* "10 Things Genealogy Software Should Do" by Mark Tucker on the ThinkGenealogy blog. Mark has made a document, a presentation and a video of his thoughts on this subject - outstanding. Every genealogist should read and comment on this. There are comments pro and con - read them too.

* "Ancestry Shows a New Face (Book App)" by the Ancestry Insider on his/her blog. The AI displays the FaceBook application in work and/or produced by Ancestry.com. It has several interesting pages that look like Ancestry.com pages. This is another way to bring in computer-literate people about to be interested in family history.

* "Research Party" by Lee Drew on the FamHist blog. Lee and his society cohorts threw a genealogy research party for teenagers - and 60 of them attended! What an amazing feat, and story. It's a great example for other societies to reach out to the younger generation.

I encourage you to go to the blogs listed above and read their articles, and add their blog to your Favorites, Bloglines, reader, feed or email if you like what you read. Please make a comment to them also - we all appreciate feedback on what we write.

Glad you enjoyed my posting about being a Euro-mutt! I've just now answered your questions. BTW, also wrote about googlegangers, and so far, am part of the unique-name club. I keep expecting another Megan Smolenyak to appear (Megan still being a slightly trendy name), but if and when she does, I defy her to append a second Smolenyak to her name!

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I am a native San Diegan, a graduate of San Diego State University, a retired aerospace engineer, a genealogist and a family guy.
My wife (Angel Linda) and I have two lovely daughters, and four darling grandchildren. We love to visit them and have them visit us.
Angel Linda and I love to travel to visit friends and relatives, to sightsee, to cruise or to do genealogy. Our travels have taken us all over the USA, to England, Down Under and Scandinavia.
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